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American Museum of Natural History

If you are coming to the Museum on Saturday, May 25, please use one of the following entrances: 79th Street and Central Park West, subway entrance, or Weston Pavilion (Columbus Avenue entrance). The 81st Street entrance will be closed, but the Hayden Planetarium Space Show will be shown on a normal schedule.

John Burroughs 2011 Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book Awarded to Elisabeth Tova Bailey, Author of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Burroughs Awards 2011

The John Burroughs Association announces the 2011 winner of its annual award, created 85 years ago to honor outstanding natural history writing, a genre perfected by John Burroughs: Elisabeth Tova Bailey, for her book The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Algonquin Books, 2010). In her book, Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris—a common woodland snail.